This year, in a fit of low-carb diet-induced insanity, Americans decided that the best way to satisfy their pasta cravings was to buy an appliance that would carve zucchinis and other vegetables into thin spirals. This, despite the fact that nature has already provided us with a vegetable that serviceably mimics pasta, the spaghetti squash. What can I say, Americans love a gadget.

It remains to be seen whether spiralizers make it through to the other side of 2016, or if they will end up curbside like so many victims of that other 2015 trend, the KonMari method of throwing away everything you own. Regardless, 2015 will go down in history as the year food got curvy.